Posts Tagged ‘Paraguay Indigenous Peoples’

‘Survival’s ‘Greenwashing Award 2010′ has been won by ranching company Yaguarete Porá’.

A Brazilian company bulldozing an uncontacted tribe’s land in Paraguay has won Survival’s ‘Greenwashing Award 2010’.

The company, Yaguarete Porá S.A., has won the award for ‘dressing up the wholesale destruction of a huge area of the Indians’ forest as a noble gesture for conservation’, says Survival’s director Stephen Corry.

The Totobiegosode are the only uncontacted Indians in the world having their territory destroyed for beef production.

Corry, said today, ‘This is textbook ‘greenwashing’: bulldoze the forest and then ‘preserve’ a bit of it for PR purposes. The public won’t fall for it. Yaguarete should stop playing games and pull out of the Totobiegosode’s territory once and for all.’

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